Macchina Del Tempo
Lucio Battisti
Time Machine
And when that crying of hers
Was a pathetic answer to my no
It turned into a green coat
That erased a corner of the street
I suffocated my sensitivity
Behind the Statue of Liberty
And that statue had a name
And green eyes already
And a zipper slowly pulled halfway down
Red female, what do you want?
(My forever)
And it was death for her too
And unfortunately
I lose you too
If you confuse the worlds
Love and ownership
You lose me
And even more alone
Without them and you
I, desperate, with a winged cloak
Run up a mountain
And with open arms and closed eyes
Throwing myself, as I can, I save myself
I’ll see among the wheat the cornflowers
Coming out of the water the smiles
The earth is pregnant with love
Even if the weed in the seed, the seed has
Of exclusivity
And surely they will talk
About depressive syndrome
Or more simply they’ll say
That another crazy person has died
But I will have only sought
That contact elsewhere
That I can’t find here
That I don’t have here
Time machine
You lose the pieces and don’t even know it
The crazy ones are the wise and vice versa now
I know that uncertainty
Kills every buzz that’s born in us
The meaning of life
Confused and humiliated, has now been lost
Among the threads of a fabric of rites and fears
Of angers and prayers
We are, we are, we are
We are alive and we must stay that way because
To plan a life in a day
Means to die that day with you
And I never want to lose anyone
And no one to ever lose me